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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107140-24-000085"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLY"
cik: "0000107140"
company_name: "JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T07:53:30.552732+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# John Wiley & Sons EVP Todd Zipper to depart upon closing of Wiley Edge sale to Inspirit

## Summary
- Todd Zipper, EVP & General Manager, Talent, will leave effective at closing of Wiley Edge sale to Inspirit, expected by May 31, 2024.
- Departure is without cause; severance benefits per Employment Letter dated August 7, 2020.
- Compensation Committee approved a performance cash bonus for Mr. Zipper tied to sale closing, payable in lump sum after transaction close.
- Performance period extended to end of Q1 fiscal 2025 on April 5, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107140-24-000085
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLY
- cik: 0000107140
- company_name: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000085/0000107140-24-000085-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000085/jwa-20240521.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Todd Zipper departed as Executive Vice President & General Manager, Talent at JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Executive Vice President & General Manager, Talent
  source text: On May 21, 2024, the Company announced that Todd Zipper, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Talent, and a named executive officer, will cease his employment with the Company, effective as of the closing of the sale of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. emerging talent and reskill training business, Wiley Edge (the “Business”), to Inspirit (the “Transaction”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000085/0000107140-24-000085-index.htm

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